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Know how IOT based smart parking system is making cities smart

Smart parking system. is one of the rapid growing smart city solutions and widely accepted worldwide. Many major entities such as Airports, City parking lot, universities, offices, shopping centers and many more have just realized how beneficial automated parking technology is. With the perfect implementation and usage of IoT and its ability to connect, analyze and automate data gathered from devices is what makes smart parking system possible.

Smart Parking involves the use of low-cost sensors, real-time data and mobile applications that help users to monitor available and unavailable parking spots. The end goal is to automate and lessen time spent manually searching for the optimal parking floor, lot and spot. Some solutions will integrate a complete suite of services such as advance booking, online payments, parking time notifications and even car searching functionalities for very large lots

Some deployment architecture

• Small sensors can be mounted on the road surface with mechanical impact protection and high ingress protection. These sensors have a high battery life to run for years.

• Sensors can directly send real-time data to the cloud. One base station can give service to thousands of devices around a range of several kilometres in an urban environment

• Using REST API parking lot availability data can be shown to users in a mobile app .